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Catholic or protestant: calendar of festivals and religious celebrations around the world for the current 3 months

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Sunday March 5, 2023National Protestant & Evangelical Churches dayCatholic or protestant
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Wednesday March 15, 2023Customary holidayCatholic or protestant
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Sunday March 19, 2023St Joseph's DayCatholic or protestant
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Sunday March 19, 2023St Joseph's DayCatholic or protestant
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Thursday March 30, 2023Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation DayCatholic or protestant
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Thursday April 6, 2023Maundy ThursdayCatholic or protestant
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Friday April 7, 2023Regional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Friday April 7, 2023Optional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Friday April 7, 2023Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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Saturday April 8, 2023Holy SaturdayCatholic or protestant
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Sunday April 9, 2023EasterCatholic or protestant
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Monday April 10, 2023Customary holidayCatholic or protestant
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Monday April 10, 2023Regional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Monday April 10, 2023Optional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Monday April 10, 2023Easter MondayCatholic or protestant
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Monday April 24, 2023Civil Servants holidayCatholic or protestant
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Thursday May 4, 2023Saint FlorianCatholic or protestant
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Saturday May 6, 2023St GeorgeCatholic or protestant
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Thursday May 18, 2023AscensionCatholic or protestant
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Wednesday May 24, 2023Saint-Marie de la Mer Pilgrimage in FranceCatholic or protestant
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Saturday May 27, 2023Whit SaturdayCatholic or protestant
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Sunday May 28, 2023PentecostCatholic or protestant
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Sunday May 28, 2023WhitsundayCatholic or protestant
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Monday May 29, 2023Whit MondayCatholic or protestant
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Thursday June 8, 2023Optional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Thursday June 8, 2023Regional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Saturday June 24, 2023St John the Baptist (Florence, Turin, and Genoa only)Catholic or protestant
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Thursday June 29, 2023St Peter's DayCatholic or protestant
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Tuesday August 15, 2023AssumptionCatholic or protestant
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Sunday September 24, 2023Regional holidayCatholic or protestant
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Friday September 29, 2023Regional holidayCatholic or protestant
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National Protestant & Evangelical Churches day

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Sunday March 5, 2023
Catholic or protestant :

Customary holiday

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Wednesday March 15, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Mid-Lent

St Joseph's Day

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Sunday March 19, 2023
Catholic or protestant :

St Joseph's Day

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Sunday March 19, 2023
Catholic or protestant :

Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day

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Thursday March 30, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Spiritual/Shouter Baptist Liberation Day is an annual public holiday celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago on 30 March. The holiday commemorates the repeal on 30 March 1951 of the 1917 Shouter Prohibition Ordinance that prohibited the activities of the Shouter or Spiritual Baptist faith. Trinidad and Tobago is the only country in the world that celebrates a public holiday for the Spiritual Baptist faith. [Wikipedia]

Maundy Thursday

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Thursday April 6, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Maundy Thursday: Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper).

Regional holiday

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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : in Jammu province only

Optional holiday

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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Good Friday

Good Friday

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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.

Holy Saturday

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Saturday April 8, 2023
Catholic or protestant : paid holiday

Easter

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Sunday April 9, 2023
Catholic or protestant : paid holiday

Customary holiday

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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Easter Monday

Regional holiday

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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Easter Monday In Edinburg only

Optional holiday

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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Easter

Easter Monday

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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.

Civil Servants holiday

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Monday April 24, 2023
Catholic or protestant : St George's Day

Saint Florian

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Thursday May 4, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Christian saint, and the patron saint of Linz

St George

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Saturday May 6, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Not observed by Muslim communities

Ascension

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Thursday May 18, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.

Saint-Marie de la Mer Pilgrimage in France

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Wednesday May 24, 2023
Catholic or protestant : in southern France, near Montpellier

Whit Saturday

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Saturday May 27, 2023
Catholic or protestant :

Pentecost

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Sunday May 28, 2023
Catholic or protestant : paid holiday

Whitsunday

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Sunday May 28, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday

Whit Monday

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Monday May 29, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.

Optional holiday

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Thursday June 8, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Corpus Christi

Regional holiday

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Thursday June 8, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Corpus Christi

St John the Baptist (Florence, Turin, and Genoa only)

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Saturday June 24, 2023
Catholic or protestant : When Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would conceive Christ, St John the Baptist also announced that Elizabeth was already six months pregnant with John, which explains that his birthday comes three months after Annunciation Day

St Peter's Day

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Thursday June 29, 2023
Catholic or protestant :

Assumption

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Tuesday August 15, 2023
Catholic or protestant : The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is the dogma so far defined by the Church. The definition was made by Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950. The Pope proclaimed: We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

Regional holiday

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Sunday September 24, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Virgin of the Mercedes in León only

Regional holiday

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Friday September 29, 2023
Catholic or protestant : St Michael - Christian celebration of angels as companions who help fight off the power of evil and who are present at the hour of death. in Lleida only